<div dir="ltr">You have to admit that's pretty crafty.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Mike Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeosmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikeosmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Name of company omitted to protect the guilty.<div><br></div><div>There was a Mac, a mouse taped to a rubber band in turn taped to the desk. A string connected to a phone cord connected to a small oscillating fan. The fan would turn and the tension was just so that the mouse would move to keep the mac from going to sleep. It was a production critical system.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Pointing out that you could turn off sleep, or remove it from the group in XServe, or DONT PUT PRODUCTION ON AN EXPOSED USER CLASS SYSTEM all had the same affect.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">

</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I once worked on a UT professors computer in the support department. I stuck a CD in the CDROM drive to install some driver software, but it would not read the disk. I used this disk like 100 times a day, so I know it worked. I open the tray and look at the disk, but there is nothing wrong. As I go to put it back into the drive I notice something weird about the tray, a brown ring. As it turns out, he thought that the coffee tray was the best idea ever for computers as it kept him from spilling it on his desk piled with crap.<div>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">I thought I'd start this because I was just telling some friends about something that happened at a previous company, and I wanted to hear more funny stories from the IT world.<div>

<br></div><div>The company I worked at used HP Service Center for etickets. We called their support because we had a question about LDAP authentication. The support guy told us that we would have to call LDAP with the question.</div>